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(ACADE 2016) Multi-Level Terminals - Wire Number & Terminal Number

tbrinkman3FLJH — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:29:24 GMT

Hey all!

I'm currently making a project where I am utilizing multi-level terminals.

The top (L01) is fused terminal that changes wire numbers, designated using a terminal number (FU1, FU2, etc.).

The bottom (L02) is designated using a wire number.

On the footprint I would like to display both the L01 terminal number and the L02 wire number.

The drawing seems to only want to display the L02 wire number and not the L01 terminal number.

Attributes used:

TERM (For L01 terminal number)

L02WIRENO (For L02 wire number)

Has anybody else encountered this / found a fix?

Re: (ACADE 2016) Multi-Level Terminals - Wire Number & Terminal Number

james.mcmillanNYR6A — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:52:22 GMT

I just tried this and it seems the correct attributes are being assigned, has your TERM attribute been made invisible, the WIRENO attribute is still visible but has no value?

this is sort of like the expected operation, but doesn't seem to be working for the different levels

it is probably a glitch, or AutoCAD have not imagined it would be used in this way

Re: (ACADE 2016) Multi-Level Terminals - Wire Number & Terminal Number

tbrinkman3FLJH — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:27:44 GMT

I have double checked the block and the attributes are all visible. It seems as though if there is a wire-numbered terminal it only displays wire numbers. And if all terminals have numbers, it will display numbers.

AutoCAD just seems to not work this way. Perhaps it's something they've resolved in later versions.

Re: (ACADE 2016) Multi-Level Terminals - Wire Number & Terminal Number

james.mcmillanNYR6A — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:36:03 GMT

the attributes are visible in the block, but are they actively visible?

try attmode = 2

TSE will make the relevant attribute TERM/WIRENO invisible as the graphical strip is inserted depending on whether the terminal is numbered or using wire numbering

I am using 2025 so maybe it has been fixed somewhat

Re: (ACADE 2016) Multi-Level Terminals - Wire Number & Terminal Number

rhesusminus — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:37:44 GMT

It works as expected in 2026 also:

I had to do the "list/edit" attributes to display the correct information, as AcadE thinks you are using EITHER wire numbers OR terminal numbers, and will "turn off" one of them automagically.